Fifty-four years ago today, Ernest Hemingway wrote his editor at Scribner's that The Old Man and the Sea was the best he could write ever.

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Fifty-four years ago today, on March 4, 1952, Mr. Hemingway wrote his publisher that he had just finished a short novel that was, quote, The best I can write ever for all of my life.

NPR: The Enduring Depths of 'Old Man and the Sea'

Fifty-plus countries are represented at this second annual global conference, which began four years ago in Canada.

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Americans consume about fifty gallons of soda a year, more than four times the average per-capita consumption sixty years ago.

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